San Diego Adventures: JONAS L.A.

May 5th & 6th I worked on the second season of the Disney Channel TV show Jonas titled "Jonas L.A." starring the Jonas Brothers. When I called and submitted for the job they said it was for a show under a different name. I had never heard of it before so I figured it must be a new show. Imagine my surprise (and delight) when I showed up on set to find out it was actually for "Jonas". I had heard that for some big shows and movies they use fake names when casting extras so that the word doesn't get out but I had never had that happen to me until this job.

We filmed on location at Will Rogers State Beach off of the Pacific Coast Highway. And we filmed concert scenes on the beach for two days. It was such a blast! Anyone who knows me knows I love the Jonas Brothers. I have seen them twice in concert back in VA and so I was so happy to be working on their show.

The first day we filmed some scenes with the actresses on the show Nicole Gale Anderson (she plays Macy) and Chelsea Staub (she plays Stella). Big Rob (the Jonas Brothers' body guard), the littlest Jonas, Frankie and another young female actress was there and filmed a short scene. The Jonas Brothers came at the end of the day and we filmed one song with them. Then it was a wrap for the night.

The second day we filmed all concert scenes all day. There were 7 brand new songs for the show that we filmed. The songs were really good. And it was cool to be one of the firsts to hear them. This also happened to be the last day of filming for the shows second season. The crew gave each of the Jonas Brothers a guitar they had signed for them saying "You're always giving out autographs so we thought we'd give you ours instead." It was so sweet. And in between filming the JoBros gave us a live acoustic performance of a couple of their songs to thank us for coming. We filmed one song that Nicole Gale Anderson starts in the audience beside me and then goes up on stage and Nick Jonas sings to her. So that was cool. She's really nice.

The first day there were a few fans that came to the beach to watch the filming, but not a lot. On the second day however, there were a lot of people who found out about it and came to watch. I also saw my first paparazzi. They weren't aloud on the set obviously but they were there. It was so weird. There were about 20 of them up in the parking lot watching with their cameras for most of the day. Anyway, I had a blast filming and am very thankful to have been a part of it. Below are some pictures from the set. Enjoy!